ursodeoxycholic

The bile taken from the gallbladders contains a chemical called ursodeoxycholic acid.

NWCN.com Animal News 2008

Your child's doctor may prescribe medications such as ursodeoxycholic acid, to increase bile flow, which will in turn relieve the itching.

Frequently Asked Questions About Alagille Syndrome 2009

Your child may also be prescribed other medicines such as prednisone to decrease the inflammation in the liver, antibiotics to prevent infection of the bile ducts and ursodeoxycholic acid to promote bile flow.

Frequently Asked Questions about Biliary Atresia 2010

Bile flow may be stimulated with ursodeoxycholic acid, but in many patients the pruritus continues.

Liver Disease and Alagille Syndrome 2009

All the bears in China produce ursodeoxycholic acid, a bile fluid considered to have medicinal properties, but sun bears are small, so probably produce less bile, and brown bears are more aggressive.

When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

The prized ingredient in bear bile, ursodeoxycholic acid, can be synthesized easily under laboratory conditions, and it's pure, clean and reliable.

Marc Bekoff: Bears, Bile, and Extraordinary Tales of Survival: Just Who Do We Think We Are? 2010

All the bears in China produce ursodeoxycholic acid, a bile fluid considered to have medicinal properties, but sun bears are small, so probably produce less bile, and brown bears are more aggressive.

When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

All the bears in China produce ursodeoxycholic acid, a bile fluid considered to have medicinal properties, but sun bears are small, so probably produce less bile, and brown bears are more aggressive.

When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

Results of a German study presented today at the International Liver Congress 2010, the Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Liver in Vienna, Austria, have shown that overall, treatment with high dose (23-28mg/kg/d) ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) is no more effective than placebo in the treatment of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), the most advanced form of non-alcoholic liver disease associated with cirrhosis of the liver.

PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

Results of a German study presented today at the International Liver CongressTM 2010, the Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Liver in Vienna, Austria, have shown that overall, treatment with high dose (23-28mg/kg/d) ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) is no more effective than placebo in the treatment of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), the most advanced form of non-alcoholic liver disease associated with cirrhosis of the liver.

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